My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs. Jim Evans
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. Martin Amis
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best. Jack Nicklaus
Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly. Jim Evans
Sixteen games, to me, is a long enough schedule for anybody. We're already concerning ourselves with head injuries and bodily harm to all of the professional athletes. Add to extra games to it, (and) you are just increasing those risks. Emmitt Smith
So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad. Brett Favre
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit. Willie Mays
That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team. Warren Moon
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air. Mary McCarthy
The final group, on Sunday at the Masters, is the greatest feeling in the world for a professional golfer. Phil Mickelson
The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective. Frank Shorter
The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be. Tiger Woods
The way I dress, I dress totally different than I did when I was in college. I have to - try to - look professional. You change a lot when you are in the NBA, but I know where I came from. Derrick Rose
The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward. Gene Tunney
There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet. Jordyn Wieber